Most local newspapers in the US are slowly dying due to their advertising revenue being killed off in favor of digital ads. I contracted at the Mercury News about five years ago and the vast majority of their income came from a single advertiser and their classified/ads had declined from a section that was larger by itself than the entire newspaper is today. Not enough people want to pay for news to make it worthwhile for smaller players to thrive in the current environment. Also newspapers don't set the political and social narrative for the country - only three printed publications backed Donald Trump and he won the election. That shows the Rupert Murdoch/Fox News TV crowd was more effective, at least with the electoral count if not the popular vote.